A companion to the Hinton Hunter and the Old Metal Detector blogs, dedicated to the first "true 25mm" figures of the Minifigs S Range, produced between 1968 and 1975.

Saturday, 16 April 2011

Seven Years War Range

I have held off adding the Seven Years War range as I had a very incomplete set of figures or pictures for it. However, John has recently sent me some more figures to identify so I felt that now there might be enough to make it worthwhile posting them.

There is a big "however", however: this isn't a range I ever collected so a number of identifications are tentative (where legible code numbers are not available under the bases).

There is also the possibility of confusing some figures with those from the American War of Independence, Jacobite Rising, and also maybe even Marlburian ranges. The following two posts contain some figures where confirmation or identification would be very helpful - you can do this by commenting on the post concerned.

In addition, if anyone has figures from this range which are not pictures and can supply photographs, I would be very glad to hear from you.

2 comments:

Jim Walkley
said...

HelloI read your blog with interest. The more I look at it, the more I think the figure you suspect is a Russian Pandour is in fact French Light Infantry. I believe I have some somewhere, unless I have already sold them. I think the Russian figure doesn't have the tail on the hat. Probably more confusing than help - sorry.RegardsJim

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This site is one of a family of (currently) three blogs for people interested in old 20mm and "true 25mm" wargames figures. The others are the Hinton Hunter (concentrating on Hinton Hunt) and the Old Metal Detector (other manufacturers).

Minifgs S Range figures can be hard to identify with absolute confidence, partly through a lack of contemporary photographic catalogues, partly because the code numbers scratched on the underside of infantry figures' bases may be obscured by later basing or by filing, and because code numbers are not present on cavalry figures, while one Napoleonic Lancer looks very like another.

If you spot any mistakes in the attribution of any of the figures here, or can supply pictures for any of the figures missing them, I would be very glad to hear from you.

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